The Berkeley Blockchain Accelerator announced the list of incubated projects for 2022, with 20 projects including Anorra and Auth3 Network making the cut
Will the next unicorn-level project be born here?Author: Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator
Original Title: 《Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator: 2022 Cohort Announcement and Ecosystem News》
Compiled by: Linqi, Chain Catcher
Introduction: Recently, the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator at the University of California, Berkeley announced the incubation projects for the 2022 cohort, with 20 projects including Anorra and Auth3 Network selected from 300 applications.
Previously, the Blockchain Xcelerator has incubated 65 teams in its first four cohorts, raising over $400 million in subsequent funding, including well-known projects such as Acala, Automata, Astar, and Manta Network, making it a top-tier blockchain accelerator at a U.S. university.
Here is the specific list of projects for this cohort:
AlfredPay is a remittance platform in Latin America, designed to provide users with a convenient and cost-effective way to send and receive money. We partner with regulated financial institutions and cash networks to offer instant access to local currency or USD in exchange for USDC.
The post-pandemic digital trend has forced music and fashion brands to seek new revenue streams. Anifie uses our proprietary software to help music and fashion brands create, sell, and enhance the value of NFTs. We enable different brands' content IP to be sold in the form of NFTs. Alongside NFT sales, our clients host events in our metaverse, strengthening their communities and further benefiting NFTs.
Anorra is a browser-based Free-to-Play mobile MMO game built on Solana using Unreal Engine. Anorra provides users with a convenient, fun, and simplified way to participate in DeFi. Our goal is to expand DeFi's application among different demographics through epic gaming or GameFi. We are particularly committed to breaking down barriers in this field and simplifying the complexities of Web3, providing accessible and user-friendly services for everyone.
With the unique privacy-preserving blockchain computing technology of Oasis Network, we have built the first "bridge" that can stream data value from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and the metaverse. It brings an expanded paradigm to the current Web 3.0. At the core of this bridge is a user-controlled Web 3.0+ identity called MBuddy.
Users can independently control their data assets and use them to serve their interests, which may include monetary, social, or other needs. For example, a DAO may require its members to have certain personal characteristics. Although these requirements cannot currently be met, MBuddy can serve as a solution. After pulling the required data, users can initiate a confidential computing job to generate a verified personal characteristic for their on-chain identity and gain DAO membership.
Avatree is "Headspace for Climate," with a mission to remove carbon from the atmosphere on a large scale. We sell 3D tree NFTs that grow according to an algorithm when users subscribe to monthly carbon sequestration purchases (we partner with carbon markets to obtain high-quality carbon sequestration).
Each month, the "fruits" on the trees can be used for brand rewards in cryptocurrency. Avatree symbolizes climate action on the internet while granting owners access to Avatribe, where they can enjoy exclusive experiences in our community portal and connect with others passionate about creating a sustainable future.
Avem is a cross-chain DeFi infrastructure built on Polkadot, serving as a Layer 1 parachain that supports the trading and custody of securities and utility tokens. We are planning to establish a non-traceable blockchain, as large institutions prefer to transfer funds without being monitored by the community. Our blockchain will use KYC and KYB (zero-knowledge proof) for regulation to facilitate the mixing of funds between institutions and retail investors.
Bitgreen aims to fund real-world assets and impactful projects related to conservation, clean energy, and social enterprises. Investors will be able to identify quality projects and syndicates and invest in cryptocurrency to hold or trade on a native CEX.
Campground is a modern media infrastructure for content creation, curation, and monetization. We have developed an innovative tool for creators to build multimedia content tours called Trails, accompanied by community audio spaces, and then mint and sell their Trails as NFT access tokens to effectively monetize content value and engage their audience. Campground is powered by the Emoji protocol and EMOJI token, a foundational token system that gamifies reactions in the "emotion prediction market" and decentralizes content quality verification through an Expert review network. Emoji aims to ultimately expand into an interoperable layer and serve as a powerful user engagement leverage across all content/media platforms.
Curio is an on-chain RTS game. It allows players to harvest resources, build bases for defense, command armies, and capture enemy towers in a rich 2D world. It is similar to Sid Meier's "Civilization" and Markus Persson's MiniCraft. Unlike crypto games focused on on-chain assets, Curio stores all game logic and state changes on the blockchain, replacing traditional game servers. Therefore, game instances are not only fully transparent but also open to "modding," allowing any player to interact with the core game logic through smart contracts.
Traditional games often have long development cycles, low player engagement, and instances of cheating. In Curio, we leverage the blockchain as a natural legitimacy layer to promote user-generated content. Our goal is to transform the walled garden of gaming into an open world where anyone can participate and receive fair contribution rewards. We see this as a continuation of the long history of "empowering players" experiments, such as Steam mods, Minecraft, and Roblox, where players have more involvement in shaping the virtual worlds they value.
Dtravel is a native web3 travel ecosystem that provides infrastructure for hosts and hotel entrepreneurs to accept on-chain bookings. It combines the freedom of direct website bookings with the convenience of online travel agencies, offering users unparalleled ownership and control throughout the booking process.
Dtravel enables homeowners and guests to transact directly, rather than relying on intermediaries that typically charge high fees and impose prohibitive policies to facilitate transactions. This peer-to-peer system allows hosts to set their own booking terms, freely decide what they showcase, and retain most of the profits.
Fairmint makes community ownership more accessible. Founders launch Fairmint's decentralized portal on their website, allowing contributors to earn tokenized equity in exchange for their time or money invested. Our technology is built by founders for founders, utilizing blockchain and smart contracts to make equity programmable. Fairmint is the Web3 layer of the modern startup stack, enhancing participation in the ownership economy.
MetaEngine provides a premium platform for asset interoperability between metaverses. With over 30 million active players on the platform, it offers a unique solution, providing the game developer community with a complete suite of powerful, blockchain-developed features.
Moon is a challenger bank and BaaS (Blockchain as a Service) platform in the crypto industry, particularly suited for Bitcoin holders, crypto natives, and the unbanked/underbanked who live off crypto. Moon's privacy-preserving technology allows it to offer bank-like services without requiring KYC, upholding the core values of the Bitcoin and broader crypto community while providing a service system for billions globally who are excluded from modern finance.
Muusic supports anyone to own and invest in their favorite music. We are changing the way music is valued by handling everything from metadata standardization to trustless multi-party royalty payments, creating an open digital record market.
Based on Muusic, anyone can create their own record label and invest in their favorite artists. We are disrupting the music industry, which relies on excessive legal fees and coordination between intermediaries that deprive artists of most of their income. By building the necessary infrastructure, tools, and technology, artists can develop their entire careers on-chain.
The upcoming Nil DAO V2 is an NFT marketplace running on Arbitrum (L2) and provides a comprehensive launchpad for generative artists. Based on Nil V2, which features new functionalities and a premium UI/UX, anyone can showcase and collect artworks by paying a small fraction of Ethereum L1 gas fees. Its launchpad will help NFT novices independently showcase their artworks in the NFT space.
OAK (On-chain Autonomous Kernel) Network is an automated blockchain for DeFi and periodic payments. Our mission is to build a cross-protocol Web3 Stripe payment platform. The blockchain is built on Parity Substrate with an event-driven execution model. Unlike Ethereum's transaction-based model (which requires private key signatures), OAK allows transactions to be triggered by event signals such as time, price, and smart contract state changes.
OAK Network aims to be the primary utility for Layer 2 cross-protocol, providing on-chain automation that is currently unachievable, such as automated limit and stop-loss orders on DEXs and periodic payment functionalities. With OAK's on-chain finality and network security, it can empower any blockchain with autonomous capabilities, unlocking the limitless potential of products.
Overnight is a protocol supporting USD+ yield-generating stablecoins. It is fully backed by stablecoin assets that generate yield through DeFi—most suitable for liquidity management of personal and treasury stablecoins, capital efficiency in liquidity pools, and serving as collateral for leveraged yield liquidity mining.
Pendulum's vision is to establish a connection between fiat and DeFi through a fiat-optimized smart contract blockchain. It supports seamless integration of traditional financial services such as foreign exchange, trade financing, or savings accounts with DeFi applications, including dedicated foreign exchange AMMs, lending protocols, or yield farming opportunities. Through this connection, Pendulum brings strong liquidity to the DeFi ecosystem, which in turn enhances efficiency, maximizes interoperability, and provides the advantages of fully automated 24/7 operations for traditional financial services.
Pendulum is based on the Substrate framework, aiming to become a Polkadot parachain to maximize security and interoperability. A customized trustless cross-chain bridge will connect it to other major DeFi or payment ecosystems, such as Ethereum, Cosmos, and Stellar.
Rampp has created all the no-code tools needed for creators or community managers to launch and scale NFT projects without writing any code. From IPFS to contracts, to minting, Rampp provides the corresponding services. As Web3 evolves, Rampp will always offer no-code solutions to break down the technical and cost barriers for those looking to explore, experiment, and build in Web3.
ViteX is a high-performance order book DEX that matches centralized exchanges in user experience but offers stronger security. Its DEX supports cross-chain trading of over 60 tokens driven by community-operated operators (with permissionless token listings) and will soon upgrade to a community-managed trustless bridge. ViteX is built on the high-speed Vite chain, with transactions that incur no gas fees.
Traders using ViteX can earn VX token rewards, allowing stakers to share in the DEX's revenue pool. VX tokens have no pre-mining, no private sales, or pre/public sales, and can only be obtained through mining methods, including trading and liquidity mining. Our next milestones include transitioning from a gateway to a cross-chain bridge, continuously attracting community operators through various sponsorship projects, developing AMMs to enhance liquidity, and expanding the entire Vite ecosystem to attract more users.
